MEV-1 Virus (Contagion Explored)

[@sciencmath]

This movie terrified me when I saw it. I called up my friend who's a biologist, hoping he would tell me it was implausible. That was a mistake.

[@myles208]

sciencmath that’s what’s good about this movie, gives you a sense of dread knowing it could all happen, for an hour or so lmao.

[@aziaramirez3932]

I have a degree in Public health and epidemiology and all these types of movies are amazing to the reality of possibility.

[@ericmanso7355]

After taking biochemistry and public health classes seeing this again makes me nervous

[@Phoenixesper1]

Next ask him about syphilus mutating and super gonoreah! You'll never have sex again! LOL

[@jadefalcon001]

This movie is fucking terrifying. Friend of mine worked at the CDC the day they were doing filming there. Drove past a big crowd of people at the gates to get in (before filming started), and then was real worried about why there was a helicopter hanging around. Then she remembered the memo about filming on site that day.

[@Bhethar]

This movie is so realistic that the Coronavirus outbreak seems almost inspired by this.

[@aletron4750]

Gabz87 corona virus is a type of SARs which inspired this film

[@aletron4750]

Liam O’Neil corona virus is a form of sars that causes similar symptoms

[@aletron4750]

Liam O’Neil sars and corona virus are 2 different viruses. corona is far more infectious but less deadly than SARs, the 2 are similar but not the same. Yes, corona virus is a type of virus which encased SARs, flu, etc. But im referring to the Wuhan virus, which is similar to SARs. Like pepsi and coca cola.

[@burkanx5546]

@@aletron4750 Yes, 2019-nCoV. There's no official name for the disease right now. This is just the dub-name for it for the time being.

[@lilyrosesoul0077]

@@aletron4750 i just say very respectfully @ Liam O Neil is correct - the current wuhan virus is a type of coronavirus. SARS is a type of coronavirus. MERs is a type of coronavirus. The mild common cold is a type of coronavirus. Coronavirus refers to virus with a particular molecular structure & causes respitory illnesses in humans. In modern medicine we know about 8-9 of these types so far. The current wuhan virus or 2019-nCov is so new the scientists have not given it an "official" name yet- just the year it started.

[@toybarrage2444]

We all know why were back here again

[@yoyo-ck6jb]

Toybarrage yup 😔

[@RainingSaturn]

Yep

[@ccc2249]

We’re back lmao

[@aa-to6ws]

Lol yeah

[@williamzettler3073]

Lmfao

[@aidenw207]

2011: This is just a movie 2020: We are all going to die.

[@JSPena]

Aiden W meh, we’ll be fine. I hope.

[@The_Greedy_Orphan]

At the moment it's mainly the old and those with underlying health conditions who die. However, with the Spanish flu there was a much deadlier second wave a year later, let's hope there's not a second wave with this one.

[@jeremytulagan3795]

@@The_Greedy_Orphan no, no, no pls, just no.

[@klutzspecter3470]

@@The_Greedy_Orphan No one expects the spanish inquistion...

[@itzzaster]

The Greedy Orphan Italy is reporting a lot of young adults requiring breathing assistance

[@Rembertex]

My mom is a nursing instructor and she uses Contagion, Outbreak, and World War Z when teaching students about pandemics. She'll have them watch the film(s) and identify things like how the virus is spreading, what steps the medical personnel take, etc. It's really neat.

[@filmcomicsexplained]

That's awesome Stephanie! Thank you for sharing :)

[@nancyomalley6441]

Well, in "Outbreak" , the big spread came from the idiot Henry Seward who first put his hand in the moving centrifuge-Then while already feeling sick, he still went to a crowded movie with his girlfriend, Corrine-He had to have to had known why he was sick

[@UndeadSchizophrenicProductions]

It would be smart to take something unrealistic and have people come up with plans to combat it. Gives people an idea to do in a real pandemic

[@Alan7997]

Someone like Henry should have known to cover their mouth whilst coughing as well - especially in a crowded movie theatre!

[@myles208]

Stephanie S best teacher ever.

[@tiggytheimpaler5483]

this movie had an amazing cast, a damned good script and a realistic spread pattern. naturally no-one remembers it unless your an addict for these kinds of films.

[@magnetometalbender5725]

Tig TV no one remembers it cause there wasn’t zombies or anything lol

[@myles208]

Magneto Metal Bender lmao true. But I think this film is great. Spreading slowly but could be EVERYWHERE over 600 million people were estimated to be killed.

[@_agent_orange__]

Not to mention the phenomenal soundtrack

[@dumbbitch7371]

i once saw it on a plane and it's stuck with me since

[@bryan6434]

Tig TV the movie was garbage bro

[@BladeValant546]

Actually, this virus wasnt really exaggerated. Appealing to the Spanish flu, the spread, and nature of the virus was really grounded. That is why this film is very unsettling because we are due for a major pandemic event. Edit 8/11/2021- It wasn't a prediction as much as reading signs such as habitat encroachment, the close proximity of multiple animal vectors, and the rise of more and more mass transportation. It was only a matter of time before a pandemic event would have occurred. Secondly, the term due is merely a colloquial usage to signal the conditions are ripe. In science, it is not an official term. We see this term used with volcanos, tornadoes, storms, and earthquakes, but it is not an official term. Stay safe folks, wear your masks, get the vaccine and lets hope we learn from this event.

[@BladeValant546]

That is nothing to be concerned about. Bubonic Plague breaks out in Madagascar normally, it appears to be seasonal. Also, it is very easy to treat and cure.

[@BladeValant546]

SoldierMedic you It is a layman term based on probability and statistics. Basically to explain it is based on past data and patterns we make predictions based on those patterns. The idea is used to gain a loose prediction on volcanos, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. You can even read this on cdcs website. So when scientists or statistics like my self say due. We mean based on past patterns these events usually happen x amount apart. This is used to develop immunizations and try and predict them prior. Your right it isn't because nature is intelligent but think you misunderstood what scientists mean. As for out breaks, the current ones weren't pandemic level events like the Spanish flu. When the CDC and WHO that they mean based on past events of pandemic strains they happen every x years. Now testing If you read this far l...thanks for the question it's is a positive you question things. In terms of nature We will avert more pathogens as med tech grows.

[@KaptainOW]

Jarred Emanuel it also seems like we are being set up for a new flu pandemic soon. The avian influenza H5N1 is a 60% mortality, however it doesn’t easily transfer from human to human

[@turtato2155]

Jarred Emanuel wait you're a statistic

[@JustAnotherAccount8]

we arent due for it, besides h1n1 was in 2009, thats not that long ago. if something were to come up, however, it will most likely become a pandemic within months

[@mellowmuzikman]

I thought this movie was as close to real life as it can get

[@filmcomicsexplained]

me 2

[@Scorch428]

Other than Kate Winslet's char would have been wearing a mask and probably not contracted the virus. Also, the scientist that self-injected the vaccine saving the world was prolly exaggerated....I think they need trials on more than 1 person before handing the vaccine to millions, lol.

[@AJ-ri1jt]

@@Scorch428 I thought the implication was that someone who serviced Dr. Mears' (Kate Winslet's) hotel room or the guy who brought her room service was infected and gave it to her. She returns to her room, removes her gloves and mask and everything, and goes to sleep in a bed with infected sheets. That even though she was so careful and did everything right on her job, she still got infected. That felt relatively realistic given just how contagious it was established to be. But the self-vaccination rollout to millions, couldn't agree more lol

[@mish375]

@@AJ-ri1jt There were several implications that she had contracted it from the hotel. Her boss tells her to stop eating out of vending machines and have a real meal. It's likely whoever catered her room service at some point (the chef, the hotel staff who delivered the meal, or even someone who interacted with the service tray travelling to her room) was infected and it spread to her that way. Or, as you suggested, it could have been that the hotel room had been infected by staff or a guest.

[@patrykroginski5041]

Mish375 S she kinda ordered or ate in Taco Bell or whatever, at least that’s what I remember. I think that was the source

[@legoboyjonathan123]

"4-18 days is an unlikely incubation time" Coronavirus: Let us introduce ourselves

[@tagnaakinsa8721]

Ncov has 24 days.

[@ic4192]

DeathPong 3311 It varies

[@McK9999]

Or 42 days

[@dayangmarikit6860]

One man didn't show symptoms until 27 days later.

[@kevinhammond2361]

@@dayangmarikit6860 yes just the one. and hopefully it was a fluke where they thought he was contaminated 27 days before showing symptoms, but actually was contaminated in the middle of that period somehow

[@SINISTERthe1]

Who else is watching this in 2020 with the spread of the Coronavirus?

[@Y2Kr4SHM4N]

2022 after the deaths of 6 million people!

[@SINISTERthe1]

Snake Pliskin honestly though like

[@ltdan2001]

me

[@cdefoor125]

Me!!

[@ViolentCrimesJr]

I did as well especially after seeing the footage from wuhan it’s insanely terrifying.

[@Willbrad1661]

As a medical student wanting to go into virus eradication, these videos really have a creative impact on me, questioning what the world would do if any of these ever happened, keep it up!

[@filmcomicsexplained]

Thanks Josef :) Good luck in your medical career champ!!

[@jesspayne4523]

Jackson Clark we would quarantine then maybe nuke it if that didn't work

[@MrShroomed]

"virus eradication" lol.

[@amnesiagrunt2356]

Virus eradication? If you were going for a career that dealt with virus related treatment, you would be a scientist, not a anything medical. a doctor diagnoses viruses/bacterial infections already discovered, prescribes treatments already discovered and researched and is more or less one of the first people to be exposed if there was an outbreak of a new virus. if you want to "eradicate viruses" or in other words, make a vaccine for them and protect people, the job title you are looking for is Virologist. A Virologist is part of the Science section of careers not medical. I want to be a virologist.

[@jzthereaper100]

Unleash all the viruses!!!!!!!!

[@xcaluhbration]

I think in the movie they said we humans touch our faces like three THOUSAND times in a day or something... I creied

[@filmcomicsexplained]

I know its so scary to think isnt it?

[@CamoB-ub9my]

I can't keep still so I start tapping my lip when I am bored

[@xcaluhbration]

CamoB2002 my GOD MAN, ARE YOU TRYING TO CATCH THAT PIG BAT POOPY VIRUS?!

[@AS-ln3pl]

Your comment made me creie

[@kayebeeny5478]

*cried

[@joshuawells835]

According to my father, this film is so realistic, it actively gives the CDC nightmares.

[@windanwomp]

Its real now....

[@UnfaithfulServant97]

It’s happening.

[@tilenstupar4659]

@@UnfaithfulServant97 we're dead now

[@yeokk]

Yet they don't prep despite all the warnings from China and South Korea. GG

[@DamnControl5]

Here's your rightmare.

[@matthew8153]

“There is no pathogen in the real world that has the same kind of incubation period as MEV-1.” Wow this video aged quickly.

[@jameson1239]

Corona virus has a 20 day plus incubation period

[@matthew8153]

Jameson Dymond The record is 27 days.

[@TakNuke]

Found one women with 40 days

[@Post_Stall_Maneuver]

He said *yet,* as if he was saying that a new virus with the same incubaiton period (SARS-CoV-2) As MEV-1

[@JuanRamirez-nx9jg]

Today is January 25th 2020 and I would like to welcome the new comments, since we know why we’re here for...

[@oshivithana6731]

Juan Ramirez Corona virus

[@gamersgames9126]

The new bird flu in China and the corona virus

[@ryousenketsu6053]

Now it's worse

[@FranktheDachshund]

March 20, 2020, I am still alive,"cough" "cough" bodies everywhere president is nuking major cities to stop the spread.

[@plaguex1]

@@FranktheDachshund lol watch what you wish for. This virus is being used for political gain so who knows what's gonna happen. I know in my city, a major one, its like a ghost town. Every store shelf is nearly empty because of panic. This seems eerily like 1984 or the movie They Live. Signs all over suddenly about we all must "Do our part" and such. Think we're nearing totalitarianism boys.

[@stormwindchampion3992]

Wash your fucking hands is the moral of this story.

[@filmcomicsexplained]

Indeed!

[@BladeValant546]

Not always enough, the key is carry hand sanitizer and when out in public during lengthen flu/disease season wear a mask and never touch your face.

[@nekokitkatlongassname]

never go out, real world is scary, stay home and watch some video compilation kids.

[@xjamesx7047]

damn straight! well said my friend :D

[@dave2808]

I wash my in gasoline then set them on fire

[@BadForYourKidneys]

Anyone else first watch this movie in health class? Made people in my class use hand sanitizer for weeks afterwards.

[@SiesVE]

I watched it for an assignment for a course about the effects of disease on history.

[@ashvazdanghe]

BadForYourKidneys hi.they also must don’t pig meat .

[@cyvader101]

BadForYourKidneys me

And now they have fallen back into old habits.

[@Krypto-pz7el]

Watched for extra credit for freshman biology 6 years ago.

[@chartaiwan]

The 2019 Chinese remake is far better and more terrifying

[@scottmatheson3346]

Wait till you see the American remake, Americans always do remakes of these foreign productions with bigger budgets and way more destruction.

[@SouthernHerdsman]

@@scottmatheson3346 Wow. A truly educated spokesperson. You have my acknowledgment.

[@bryanmartinez6600]

@@scottmatheson3346 *DIRECTED BY MICHAEL BAY*

[@Rubedocto]

Scott Matheson 1000% more explosive

[@Tribute2the80s]

Is it called Flu?

[@alisondrummond5572]

Mev-1 virus origin: bat Coronavirus origin: bat *We have an avengers level threat*

[@rexsmith9074]

Bats are always an issue. There are more bats than most people realize, estimates are 1 in every 4 mammals is a bat. Thousands live extremely close together. And they have extremely strong immune systems. Basically, they're always going to carry and transmit a large number of viruses. It would also help if people would stop trying to eat them in wet markets.

[@ThisAccountIsDead333]

@@rexsmith9074 wet markets are disgusting and I hope the whole world can agree to abolish this horrible, deadly culture

[@freddiemercury4evr]

@@rexsmith9074 it would be good if people didn't eat animals, period.

[@test-jt5el]

You dont get it, all coronaviruses like this made up one, covid-19, mers, sars, Polio, Ancid-3, and 0PEO, are all from bats

[@MrSlowshin]

*avengers intro starts playing*

[@trackerjacker0]

I'm currently in my third year of my BSc in Microbiology, and its movies like Contagion and alot of Zombie films that made me want to study micro. This is one of my favourite movies along with Train to Busan.

[@cjholmes3637]

All I want to say is good luck and I hope you succed/pass your tests

[@rajdeepdas272]

What you doing now?

[@coloursmash7841]

I watched this film when I was like 10 and I had no clue what was going on

[@filmcomicsexplained]

I was a similar age when I saw resident evil. I had no idea what was happening and was scared as hell haha

[@project1mission]

I still don't know whats going on most of the time in the Resident evil films.

[@TheCheekPunisher]

Project1Khan No one does

[@ihavenoidea5277]

I was also young when my parents watched this movie and the part where they cut open the main guys wife's head open traumatized me

[@gnp1117]

The scariest movie I ever seen

[@randommemes1156]

I haven't watched it

[@darkseid6089]

@@randommemes1156 You should get it on DVD it's a great movie with a strong great cast.

[@pixelkiller4605]

I’ve watched it, and despite it not being the normal horror film, it could definitely count as one. It made me overly paranoid as a child for about a week and even now it makes me paranoid. It’s horrifying and really gets under you skin.

[@brandonveltri2825]

This is my favorite film next to shawshank redemption

[@loidallanes6737]

Don't worry, it's even more realistic in 2020

[@thomaswil8]

Explain the Coronavirus in China

[@wolfboi7104]

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[@wolfboi7104]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IT'S DEADLY HELP U-

[@wolfboi7104]

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[@wolfboi7104]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IT'S DEADLY HELP U-

[@carloscorner1631]

@@wolfboi7104 ok english please

[@silentassassin1399]

Damn it... 8 years ago we commenting how scary this is... WERE in the movie now.

[@angelxtasy]

Now coronovirus is on its way.

[@mish375]

Yep. Scary stuff.

[@skeleton2082]

Matthieu Dirty Even though the Coronavirus has a death rate of 2-5% it could still kill million which is kinda scary.

[@ti4383]

Matthieu Dirty 65 million people is what the number is now because of the mortality rate, the mortality rate for corona virus is actually rising so which means more People could die.

[@aka_ligmalickmyballssack9381]

Aye

[@rakamas]

So what is the R naught factor in the Coronavirus?

[@wheresmycheese8511]

This is what happens if you follow Gwyneth’s health and well-being advice

[@kimbanz9818]

That's hilarious!! She is so over rated...

[@MrRusskie99]

Piss off 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@qwellen7521]

Cool video. In truth i think it was an admirable attempt to try an do a realist plague apocalypse narrative, but i always felt the film was actually too big, and some arcs just stop with not conclusion. In truth, the scariest plague in film I've seen is the Siman flu from the new apes movies, mostly because we experience the horror of the aftermath so well, and that there are lasting effects.

[@filmcomicsexplained]

Hey Sam! you are right, there were a few arcs that dont reach their conclusion. I hope Soderbergh releases an extended cut so we can see what the film could have been like.

[@rajdeepdas272]

What do you think about it now after ncov comes into the stage

[@Doc903]

Um... how about now?

[@Declan-pg8cg]

Contagion is by far the best film I have seen dealing with the subject matter.

[@technrd1]

When I saw this movie in 2011, I knew someday this would happen. And now....we are living it

[@GieCampbel-ug9jl]

Because they always first reveal what's next on their agenda

[@ti4383]

This is in my recommend... right after the outbreak in China...

[@fatherleo4603]

"Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come" Haruki Murakami

[@andrewc1036]

"I quote mentally disabled people". - Father Leo

[@marcelosoto-quiroga1965]

The only "drawback" I've found so far to this movie's script (otherwise almost perfect) is that Dr. Erin Mears (K. Winslet) misses an invaluable source of information by leaving Mr. Emhoff (M. Damon) go home instead of taking him to a lab and analyze his blood and/or DNA for some clue upon his natural immunity. Specimens like that must be taken into custody not to avoid spreading the disease but as an investigation patient.

[@spoonsVSforks]

What really scared me was how that nurse got sick before being able to really set up and help people and how 1/12 people got the virus

[@runningfreeman]

She got sick because of formites as she explaned earlier

[@EpicShadow228]

4-18 days? Um, the recent coronavirus has a 2-14 day incubation, I think.

[@johnmorales1195]

Yeeesh. This is pretty similar to that. I don't think that's a good sign.

[@User-gx3sr]

John Morales the most recent study from China is suggesting it has an RO of 4....just like the virus in contagion, AFTER it mutates. 😐

[@alishbaali7223]

@@User-gx3sr That's hella scary because just a few hours ago they said the Ro was around 2.5

[@User-gx3sr]

Alishba Ali check out a KZbin channel called “Peak Prosperity”. He has update video on the virus and has a PhD in Pathology, best source for no bs information right now.

[@volkhen0]

R0 is not only characteristic of virus but also of environment where it spreads. In highly populated areas R0 will be higher.

[@haniv13]

Another film: based on true event Contagion: I am predict true event

[@UltimateOmegaRed]

"Matt... Damon."

[@Jonathan-og2bv]

UltimateOmegaRed MATT DAMON

[@spartacussmith7070]

MEHT DEHMONNNN

[@scalpelsleppdem1447]

I'm watching this in my health class, on day 14 (movie time) and left the class afraid to touch my face. Then I completely forgot about it and touched my face numerous times and high fived a teacher.

[@namelessdork2256]

Contagion now has a sequel. Contagion 2; Covid Hell. And it didn't cost film makers a penny.

[@ConchienceClothing]

Lol 😂

[@uvb769]

Horror movies:We are the scariest Contagion:Hold my virus..

[@HerMoisture]

Covid-19: **Running closer from the distance**

[@taracardinal6789]

This video has the longest incubation of all time... went viral two years later

[@starbucks2101]

Really? This is recomended to me now after china has an outbreak

[@CreationWebNovelStudio]

This was suggested to me, too.

[@thesupertendent8973]

Really good film that mean do not know about I wish there were more films like this.. Great video, made some points I never thought of

[@filmcomicsexplained]

Thanks ESA. Check out Outbreak! its another medical disaster film made in the 90s starring morgan freeman, kevin spacey, duston hoffman among others. Used to be one of my fav films when I was a kid, obviously I had a twisted childhood :)

[@cheryl5667]

I have re-watched this movie many times throughout the years, but moreso for obvious reasons in the past few weeks. The great lengths and attention to detail applied were not in vain. A masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned. RIP, Red One-MX.

[@OttoRenUlson]

*"CONTAGION: Nothing spreads Faster than fear."* That quote really fit due to how scared people were after watching the film

[@carolynallisee2463]

I am watching this on 21.2.2020, with a new coronavirus, now named Covid-19, beginning to spread across the globe. Somehow, films like 'Contagion' are never going to lose their relevance,

[@plusequalminusk4203]

And now this shit is happening for real, great.

[@joseph2705]

By far the best pandemic movie ever. Feels like you are living in it. Ending scene when the flash ended the movie caused goosebumps and fear of the dark.

[@SuperEman500]

isn't it cool that were living in this movie now?

[@account4345]

The fact that most epidemic style movies focus on the survival aspect and characters with the virus or disease the backdrop makes this movie special. It focuses on the thing that actually makes the film a thing, a virus outbreak movie that focuses on the virus is weirdly and sadly very rare. This movie was great because of the fact it focuses on the virus and it’s effects as well as working against it.

[@elevatormusic4000]

My Health teacher had us watch this movie near the end of school, and I'm glad he did. This is probably the best pandemic film I've ever seen.

[@danielkelegian5306]

The movie should be classified as "education Material".

[@Synnerization]

The virus in contagion may be inspired by real events but the virus itself is beyond far fetched. They're basically making the argument that a new unknown virus will emerge that has the interhuman communicability of influenza, the lethality of at least smallpox (actually as depicted it approaches marburg), and an incubation period shorter than anything else observed. The extremely short incubation period would aid in containment because the infected could be identified and quarantined rapidly so the epidemic would tend to burn itself out. Also the breakdown in services is unrealistic because if the virus actually had a mortality rate similar to smallpox then there would be survivors that could resume work without fear of infection.

[@BladeValant546]

Fun discussion time! The virus in contagion may be inspired by real events but the virus itself is beyond far fetched. They're basically making the argument that a new unknown virus will emerge that has the interhuman communicability of influenza, the lethality of at least smallpox (actually as depicted it approaches marburg), and an incubation period shorter than anything else observed. ((While the incubation is totally something we haven’t seen yet really. However, the whole interspecies transmission is how the Spanish Flu started. It lethality was considerably high even for the medical technology of the time. The nature of pandemic strains are usually oddly opposite to typical disease. In most cases old, infirm, or young children are at risk. However, in most trends the young to older adults are more at risk. This is seen with several types of flus. However, this virus was more or less a mixture of SARS and Encephalitis.)) The extremely short incubation period would aid in containment because the infected could be identified and quarantined rapidly so the epidemic would tend to burn itself out. ((It really depends on the physiological effects, however in the medical fields there is a joke that all of the deadliest pathogens all start with flu like symptoms. This actually causes issues, as majority of the time most people are totally unaware they are infected until it is too late. Ultimately, the incubation periods are irrelevant until the virus or pathogen in question is identified as on a epidemic or pandemic run.)) Also the breakdown in services is unrealistic because if the virus actually had a mortality rate similar to smallpox then there would be survivors that could resume work without fear of infection. ((Yea, there is an issue with the kill rate, as the classic virus will kill itself out is apparently. However, the panic and fear will prevent people from going to work. I think you underestimate when there is a pandemic how much people will be afraid of a cough or sneeze. Now, you are 100% right under normal circumstances…in fact people will spread it faster by going to work.)) Over all I see where you are coming from, I think you make some valid points over all.

[@Synnerization]

"While the incubation is totally something we haven’t seen yet really. However, the whole interspecies transmission is how the Spanish Flu started. It lethality was considerably high even for the medical technology of the time. The nature of pandemic strains are usually oddly opposite to typical disease. In most cases old, infirm, or young children are at risk. However, in most trends the young to older adults are more at risk. This is seen with several types of flus. However, this virus was more or less a mixture of SARS and Encephalitis." The mortality rate of the 1918 flu was between 10-20% and that was due to a mutation that caused a cytokine storm in young adults. The only thing that really changed about the virus itself was the lethality. All the basic characteristics of the disease were identical to influenza that humans have lived with since prehistory. The virus itself had a long history with humans before it played species hopscotch. What I was referring to is the inter-human communicability. Viruses that spread like influenza and measles are extremely rare. The prospect of an entirely new virus with a similar virality is, while not impossible, extremely unlikely. Each element of the virus; the extremely short incubation, high mortality and high morbidity would each singularly be unlikely in a new virus. Combined they strain the realm of credulity. It seems that the screenwriters took the very worst aspects of viruses that they could find and combined them into a theoretical nightmare plague. It's the Mary Sue of plagues.

[@filmcomicsexplained]

Some great Discussions here Jarred and Synnerization! Thanks for sharing you too :)

[@BladeValant546]

Synnerization haha Mary Sue of plagues or plagueinc. the movie. But yea I agree in the movie it is very over powered. Good points all around. It is nice to see someone who knows things. Yea, I mean there are tons of major things, but yea this was like sars, influenza, encephalitis all thrown into one with the death rate of the haunta virus and Ebola.

[@Synnerization]

Combination of SARS, influenza, and encephalitis is a pretty accurate description. btw SARS isn't a new virus. It's just a mutated strain of a cold virus. As an unrelated side note I was thinking about earlier today. Ebola has the potential to turn into a airborne pathogen that spreads like the cold because its done it before with ebola reston. The thing is that while ebola reston can kill a boatload of monkeys all it does is cause cold-like symptoms in humans. The mutation that increases its pathogenicity in primates is likely the very thing that causes it to be annihilated by the human immune system. I guess that demonstrates the principle that while mutation can create nightmares it can also destroy them.

[@jacquelineochoa8278]

I remember watching this movie in high school and being truly horrified that this would happen someday....

[@paulallenburg3442]

Jackie O I was too cuz I live in the city where the virus starts to spread in the movie

[@manuelcalavera7272]

@@paulallenburg3442 Oh I have a bad news for ya bud

[@sugarsugar2016]

my AP biology teacher showed us this movie. It’s nerve-racking and unsettling

[@bluestuable]

one of my fav films, its actually makes you more aware of how more personally hygienic you could be.

[@CaptSkittyTV]

We watched this movie in Forensics and I thought it was one of the strangest yet most fascinating movies we were shown by the teacher.

[@theonekeanu]

this movie is so accurate I watched in in highschool anatomy when learning about contagions

[@thecommunistdoggo1008]

Same thing

[@pianokeyjoe]

When I heard of the coronavirus, I thought about this movie which I saw in 2011 on my way to Puerto Rico on Jet Blue for the first time lol! Oh the memories.. And now this movie may be a scary reality for us all! Prayers!

[@lordbunsher794]

The interesting thing is that the development although different in origin, spread at an alarming rate similar to the movie. Even though it took like 9 months for the first vaccine to be administered (december 9th 2020) after completed trials. They took half of the time and probably loads of shortcuts but also reveal that the process was doable in a shorter amount of time in drastic cases even if the movie was fictitious. I will say that your explanations of virus have always been an enjoyment to me and I fully understand dropping them since the pandemic has made this kind of subject a little harder to approach. I remember watching them years ago and thinking that nothing like that would ever happen again...how wrong I was.

[@Toki420]

Contagion was good because of how real it felt .I remember being unsettled after the film ended .CONTAGION is just a very realistic.

[@elizabeth7951]

we watched it in class and for a bit after it made me paranoid everytime i coughed a little or heard someone near me cough

[@chrizjavez]

now its real

[@CompositesNG]

This movie was the first thing I thought and have been thinking about since the outbreak

[@BBoyDrkNova]

My teacher showed us this movie as an example of how the world would react to a outbreak like this. &how keeping clean and sanitize was very important, and etc. It's been so many years I don't remember the details.

[@randyramirez4408]

Well now it's happening, and the real worlds reaction was hoarding all the toilet papers

[@choysakanto6792]

MEV-1 is basically fictional nCoV-2019. Change my mind.

[@AIRburst95]

Nipah killed 50-75% of hosts compared to approximately

[@joeylebar]

Mev-1 causes brain swelling seizures and death covid 19 causes coughing and fever and death for those in high risk categories

[@r3zaful]

@@AIRburst95 mev is about 20% SARS cov 2 is about 5-10% still fucking high

[@lilysthapit2222]

The movie was so scary! It really makes you question reality. We believe 'ignorance is bliss'. But when you watch the movie, you realise how a virus can outbreak so quickly. It put me into an angle of a normal people who lived normally. What would I do? How would I act in each scenario as normal a citizen? The film did a really great job at replicating a real-life scenario. That's the main scary thing about the film... it is not *impossible* .

[@Syisulis]

Well it's happening now Lily good luck out there..............

[@lilysthapit2222]

@@Syisulis Thanks. I do live in Asia and am near China, but so far my country hasn't seen any cases of the virus. **chuckles** I'm in danger Hope you stay safe as well! EDIT: So just recently we got an update that someone who was infected had returned from China just now and is now kept under monitoring and all his relatives are being tested. Welp, guess I'm going to die then.

[@potatopatooti]

I've been studying the Hendra virus - cousin to the Nipah, but with a higher mortality rate. Utterly fascinating. Can't wait to be a qualified Virologist. I hope I'm good enough to work with Nipah one day :O

[@xjamesx7047]

can you do the Trixie Virus from *The Crazies* next after this :D

[@filmcomicsexplained]

Hey James! It is on the to do list :)

[@xjamesx7047]

thank you very my much! take as long as you need now

[@filmcomicsexplained]

haha cheers :)

[@dr.strange1300]

James Ferraris I second his suggestion.

[@KreegaKleet]

James Ferraris yes

[@vdoxsamp7283]

Writing this after 5 days of home containment, need to fill out a paper to leave home and only can go to spefic places for specific reasons like shopping for essentials or taking care of a child whose parents are essential to the country. Failure to do so results in a 135€ fine. I guess I got time to watch this movie. 10 more days(or more, we dont know yet)

[@BrokeredHeart]

I liked the cinematography in this because it highlighted fomites, the surfaces that numerous people touch every day that leads to transmission. You can see the chain linking these patients together, either through skin on skin contact, or by touching objects and surfaces that haven't been disinfected. It's hard to build dread in your audience when you don't have a physical, visible entity to scare them with, so to use synth music and close ups of inanimate objects was a really clever way for viewers to "see" the ease of transmission. Things like elevator buttons, glassware, bar peanuts, swipe cards, door handles, and even through respiratory droplets in the air from when an infected person coughs. It's fascinating and horrifying at the same time, because when it's revealed in the film how it all started, the ease at how it happened was unnerving. A good reminder to everyone here to be diligent when washing your hands and practicing safe social distancing. What we're dealing with today is far less deadly than this fictional strain, but it remains infectious for much longer, and if you have it, you can be contagious for up to three weeks. So let's all be sensible and do our part so nightmare situations like this movie don't happen.

[@sandracheeks1811]

I’m a public health nurse...while this is obviously a movie and has many aspects about it that are for dramatic effect, it is by far the most realistic “bio-disaster” movie I’ve ever seen.

[@BravoSixGoingDark]

Surreal movie. Had my jaws dropped after re-watching it for a 2nd time today.

[@wpatrickw2012]

Contagion should have won an Oscar for best picture.

[@poniio3293]

Who’s here in 2020 because of the corona virus

[@CreationWebNovelStudio]

Me

[@diokimura]

guys, it's happening now

[@zohanrock]

2020 - it's all finally coming together.

[@user-ll3dm9vb9h]

Hey filmcomics we were watching this movie in our pathogen study in health class. I was absent most of the week due to (ironically) the flu and this video has given me a reference for what the virus is. So thanks for letting me bump my grade up 5 points.

[@preoximerias7366]

Uhh...Coronovirus is spreading across the globe and I get this video in my recommended. Bruh.

[@hazurii2076]

Can you do the Corona Virus (China Explored)

[@teardrop3842]

the fisrt time i hear about corona virus,i remember this movie, I hope this incident can be resolved as quickly as possible, and have a happy ending like in the film

[@PutitoCorner]

Who’s watching this after learning in the news about the coronavirus currently spreading worldwide? Some folks in social media (at least those I saw) have drawn parallels between that and this virus from Contagion.

[@viningscircle]

"Nothing spreads like fear". Brother you ain't kidding!

[@stagneso]

I have stumbled your video again and I rewatched it after what is currently happening right now in Wuhan, China.

[@JustinBarylski]

Coronavirus: exists Everyone: aah shit, here we go again

[@ChrisChew]

Who else is concerned of how closely related this movie is to Coronavirus?

[@MeeHeeCanMF]

Contagion was such a good movie. I completely forgot it existed lol

[@randyramirez4408]

And now were living it and were the stars

[@psychoaztecs]

Just watched this movie. I feel so bad for Kate Winslet's character. Respect to all the doctors goes into the hot zone and risk their lives try to learn bout the disease.

[@ernestoaguas3443]

0:23 Meanwhile in Russia.

[@longnguyenquynh2347]

Well Russia's population density in the unmarked zone explains it.

[@eurtz876]

Tripaloski

[@killingboyrock8372]

jj

Russia is scantly populated. Most of the Russian people concentrates in Moscow, which is located in the European part of the country. Other very populated cities are St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterimburg, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Vladivostok. St. Petersburg is near Finland and, as you can see in the map, that is a region highly contaminated. Rostov-on-Don is near Bulgaria, another red area. Yekaterimburg, Novosibirsk and Osmk are all border cities to Central Asia (Kazakhstan and Mongolia), a heavily infected area, as seen in the map at 0:23. Last, but not least, Vladivostok is a harbor in the Pacific, side by side with China's eastern border with Russia, where the virus had spread at the speed of light. So, Russia is pretty much fucked up! Perhaps it is more accurate to say: "meanwhile in Siberia", because that part of the world has actually avoided MEV-1, being as bleakly empty and desolate as it is.

[@ertugciftci]

Must be vodka

[@whiskyhotel199]

Who's here after conorova virus?

I am here after 6 Coronas.

[@mikewonghongkee4480]

whiskyhotel199 ☝️rewatch to increase awareness 😰

[@scottmatheson3346]

"After" coronavirus is optimistic.

[@otakusnorex3724]

Conorova lol

[@whiskyhotel199]

@@otakusnorex3724 ikr lol

[@TheGringuish12]

In the future some people will actually confuse the movie plot with a coronavirus documentary

[@31webseries]

Definitely affected me. Made me mildly germaphobic for months after over things I wouldn't have thought twice about before, because I'd be about to do something or touch something but then I'd picture a shot of me in Contagion 2 "Day 1" and NOPE.

[@yunzhao6277]

this movie is terrifying for 2020

[@almed23]

Day 6 of quarantine. covid19 cases still on the rise. May God have mercy on us all...

[@frinkleboop9963]

The bit about incubation periods certainly aged well.

[@lwwafflezz5633]

I'm not gonna lie I had nightmares for almost a week after watching that in 6th grade health class

[@MariannVela99]

And sadly this became a reality 😳

[@JamiePiller]

I am slowly getting through your videos. I thank you again for your impeccable work.

[@thexenomorph5363]

I remember watching this in my 8th grade Science class, This movie scared me to the point where I was washing my hands constantly.

[@musql6047]

2020...this become a reality

[@AndrewPerryJr]

After I watched this movie, I felt the sudden urge to take a shower and spray down everything with Lysol. Probably the scariest movie I've ever watched.

[@peterburton3095]

You were lied to by hellyweird. This movie is propaganda. Louis Pasteur admitted his germ THEORY is fake and the Terrain is EVERYTHING. Viruses aren't contagious at all. It's complete bullcrap. The vaccines are what will kill you. 101 murdered doctors once spoke about vaccines and the false germ theory. They were silenced to prevent the truth coming out. These vaccines are designed to kill quickly.

[@reddeadultimate9558]

Im here in 2020 everything is fine, there is nothing to fear, life is awesome

[@roberteden3713]

For me, this was a very unsettling movie and loved every moment. Well acted. Outbreak was another of my favs.

[@GrImRePrZ237]

I love how relevant this is now

[@Albert-hz3qs]

Watched this at school

[@MariannVela99]

And it’s real hahah